TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Maybe that's why he only picked one 90s movie. 

[Admiral Yi]

The 90s are over Yi. Also, they sucked.

You're a crabby fuck.

[derspiess]

The 90s are over Yi. Also, they sucked.

[Queequeg]

Sheilbh and CDM convinced me to watch Naked.  Love the werewolf line from Thewlis.   

[Queequeg]

Holy Christ.  I can't believe how hideous all the clothes are.  And more than half of the people.  It's almost as upsetting as the plot. 

[CountDeMoney]

Holy Christ.  I can't believe how hideous all the clothes are.  And more than half of the people.  It's almost as upsetting as the plot.

Well, they are British.

[CountDeMoney]

So I decided to rent Prometheus at oh-dark-thirty this AM, and I'm stopped at the 1:05:18 mark, because I have to bitch.

First, you show up in a movie with a fucking android, you saw that fucker in half with a shotgun before the beginning credits.  Fuck, after so many Ridley Scott movies, you can't even trust a microwave anymore.

Secondly, I cannot imagine a more disjointed scientific expedition.  Not only is the whole mission crew a microcosm of dysfunction, nobody's on the same fucking page on this thing. It's like an episode of Corporate Applications IT In Space.  Bean Counting >  "I'm here to make money", says the geologist  > Most Important Interplanetary Archeological Discovery In Mankind's History.  Fuck. 

You wish zombie Neil Armstrong would come back and kick these people in the ass.  And where's Gene Kranz when you need him?

Land on the planet with only six hours of daylight left?  Fuck it, let's run up into an archeological site like we just pulled up in the family truckster in the fucking parking lot at Wally World.  Just lollygagging around, not paying attention to shit on the walls, letting people split up, no monitoring of personnel left behind, quarantine and safety tossed out the fucking window, you got shit in your eyeballs, not telling anybody.

So far, the only character premise I buy into is the Captain with his squeezebox, because as my old German granddad used to say of his days as a sailor with Norddeutscher Lloyd in the 1920s, every sailor needs a squeezebox.

Halfway in, and sorely disappointed.

[CountDeMoney]

Oh yeah,  and obviously The Discovery Channel went extinct in the future and nobody's watched it, because gee, you're supposed to be a biologist, because looe here, here's a reptilian-like thing that just so happens to exhibit hostile behavior by rearing up and flaring a cobra-like shroud. 

No, that's not a danger sign or anything, I THINK I'LL JUST PET IT.

[Neil]

It's not that the Discovery Channel is gone, it's just that it's nothing but back-to-back episodes of Deadliest Catch.

[CountDeMoney]

Final Verdict:  Prometheustupid.  On so many levels.

[Habbaku]

Final Verdict:  Prometheustupid.  On so many levels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x1YuvUQFJ0

[Ed Anger]

It's not that the Discovery Channel is gone, it's just that it's nothing but back-to-back episodes of Deadliest Catch.

American Chopper: THE USA! BIKE that looks like all the other bikes.

[The Brain]

Looper. It was good.

[The Brain]

Final Verdict:  Prometheustupid.  On so many levels.

Indeed.

[Syt]

50 years ago today U-2 planes discovered Soviet missiles on Cuba and the Cuban Missile Crisis began.

SF Debris chose the anniversary to review The Day After. It's been, oh, 25 or so years since I first saw it on German tv, but it's still one serious downer of a movie for me. The same year we read at school The Last Children of Schewenborn about the post-nuclear aftermath in a small village in Germany, not to mention that Chernobyl had blown up a year or so before.

The town I grew up in had a storage of of nuclear artillery grenades, guarded by an American detachment. At the time, it was not so much a question whether or not there would be a nuclear war, but rather when - combined with a big likelihood that we had a big bulls-eye painted onto our heads, which was oddly comforting.

Of course the movie Threads is rather worse than TDA.